One question, if David Sirota had nothing to hide, why did he scrub all his past twitter posts?

[still_one]

[Beakybird]

1. It was just 20,000 posts about what he had for breakfast.

[lapucelle]

6. Why would anyone say that?

[OhZone]

20. Hahahahahah nt

[CentralMass]

2. I would guess because he is now working for a poltical campaign.

[lapucelle]

4. That's not what he said. N/T

[CentralMass]

10. Well that isthe reality now that he iss is officially working for the

campaign.

[lapucelle]

19. The reality is that Sirota told The Atlantic that the tweets were scrubbed by an "autodeleter".

Just hours before his hiring by Sanders was announced, Sirota deleted about 20,000 or so of his tweets. He suggested that the timing of the mass deletion was coincidental, telling the Atlantic that his account was scrubbed by an “autodeleter” that periodically and automatically removes his posts.

So what is "reality" now that Sirota has been exposed as a political operative? Coincidental autodeleting or deliberate scrubbing in an attempt to clean up the mess?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/a-bernie-sanders-supporter-and-journalist-had-a-secret-he-kept-from-his-readers/2019/03/20/063aabee-4b26-11e9-b79a-961983b7e0cd_story.html?utm_term=.97de3286a21c

[Blue_true]

27. He is making a claim that can easily be checked.

I am sure that there are people out there now checking. Stay tuned.

[namahage]

5. Do staff from other campaigns make it a habit to scrub their Twitters? n/t

[awesomerwb1]

7. So??

[Cha]

15. This is just as much unethical for Sanders as it is for Sirota.

Link to tweet

[Blue_true]

28. Bernie steadfastly refuses to release his full tax returns when

pretty much everyone else releases multiple years of theirs soon after they enter the race. If Bernie has boring tax returns as he claims, there should be no issue with releasing them.

[Cha]

36. Exactly Blue_true. If tax returns

"so boring" then release them.

Link to tweet

[Socal31]

3. I dug some out.

They seem focused on Kamala attacks, although my sample size of 6 isn't scientific.

[Me.]

8. What Posts?

[George II]

9. That was really bizarre, within an hour or two of being hired more than 20,000 tweets were gone.

[dalton99a]

11. His 'autodeleter' works in mysterious ways

It moves the mouse and clicks "OK" by itself

[Blue_true]

29. One thing that I don't get.

There were over 20,000 tweets, but 200 somehow met conditions for the "auto deleted" not to delete them. Wow!!!

[dalton99a]

32. He thinks people are stupid

There had to be human intervention. He may have used a tool like this:

https://www.winhelponline.com/blog/twitter-bulk-delete-old-tweets-search-specific-words/
How to Bulk Erase Old Tweets or Tweets Containing Specific Words

[Blue_true]

33. He apparently has not heard of the Wayback Machine.

If it ever made it to the Web, there is a good chance that it got archived and will never leave the Web.

[Blue_true]

34. BTW, does not surprise me that someone that joins that campaign view other people as stupid.

You only have to listen to Nina Turner or Cornell West for 3 minutes to see that come out.

[Cha]

12. Because david sirota Does have

a Lot of shit to hide.

[still_one]

13. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

[Cha]

17. This is just as much unethical for Sanders as it is for Sirota.

Link to tweet

[WeekiWater]

22. That about covers it. NT

[Hortensis]

14. Erased comments from The Atlantic and WaPo as answers:

Responding in mid-January to those who criticized him online for preemptively railing against the record of O’Rourke, who had not yet entered the race but had been a huge source of concern for Sanders allies since talk of O’Rourke’s potential presidential run picked up last year, Sirota tweeted,

“The screaming temper tantrums by Democratic Party operatives whenever reporters scrutinize a lawmaker’s voting record is something to behold. These people quite literally hate democracy.”

At another point, he said his critics “are deranged and/or running a deliberate disinfo campaign.” “Positively unhinged,” he wrote about them a separate time.

Democrats literally hate democracy and are unhinged. Then Sanders took the Democratic Party pledge. Then Sirota was OUTED to have been a Sanders operative when he said this. THEN he raced to delete 20,000 tweets.

[dalton99a]

16. +1

[jalan48]

18. I don't know. It's now the biggest scandal since Bernie's stitches. Stay tuned for the next big one!!

[dsc]

21. no this is a real problem

Sirota is out and out lying (no there is no autodeleter that deleted 20k posts). It is absurd. Sirota is a high ranking employee of Sanders now and is not only an attack dog but a liar as well.

[jalan48]

23. I'm breathlessly awaiting the next big scandal, what will it be????

[dsc]

24. Imagine if Sarah Huckabee Sanders did this

we would be enraged, and for damn good reason.

[jalan48]

38. Oh, I'm sure there will be more outrage coming up.

[Blue_true]

30. Delete 20,000 but leave 200. Some highly selective autodeleter. nt

[Blue_true]

25. He claims that an auto delete program did it. nt

[RandySF]

26. Because he had something to hide.

[dogman]

31. I'll have to go from memory.

Posts of him and his bowling league. Posts of his wife running and winning as a Democrat in the Colorado Legislature. More interesting to me because Bernie endorsed her. Posts decrying fracking and fossil fuels influence on politics, local and national. His calls for action on climate for his children's sake and extreme concern about the limited time left. I remember him from the early days at Air America where he was a regular guest on Al Franken's show. I found his posts as mostly informative. I found his passion to be real.

[mcar]

35. 20,000 posts

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

[still_one]

37. probably just discussing the weather, ho hum